#FlashbackFriday: The #Indian who inspired #SeanPenn

So how did he get his inspiration from Tagore? As Penn describes it, “There is a connection between my presence and all of you. I am not a religious person, but in 1989, I was working in Omaha, Nebraska, and everyday I would take the main road back and forth to the production offices of mine in a house that I rented by the University (of Nebraska). And there was an alleyway, and in that alleyway there was some graffiti and the graffiti said, ‘Every new child born is proof that God is not yet discouraged of men.’ That was the former poet laureate of India, Tagore, who’d written it (the original line).”

To laughter, Penn noted that it had taken “some time to track down, but it made a very strong impression on me because it’s a kind of fuel every time something like Haiti happens.”

Interesting – at least it looks like he is using his celebrity power to do good…and spreading the message.

…and my favorite Tagore quote: “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf…